This October will see the first true AADG event. In the spirit of Halloween (and a lack of Howliewood being held this year), I’ll be running a casual little tournament called Terror Creek 666 Doubles held at Terrace Creek Park, in Mountlake Terrace, WA on October 25th.

666 doubles is a format that I’ve been wanting to try for a long time, and I figure, what better time than Halloween? What is a 666 format, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. 18 holes of play, incorporating 3 different kinds of doubles play, i.e. 6 holes of one, 6 holes of the other, and (you guessed it) 6 holes of another. The three formats I’ll be using for the 666 are: alternate shot, best disc, and tough shot (dum dum DUM!). For more information on the details of the particular formats, check out the PDGA’s explanation of them here. It should be a true test of players’ abilities to work with each other, and play smart golf. If all goes well, everybody should still be friends by the end of the first round, but I have a feeling, there will be many apologies, among other kinds of language, uttered throughout the 666 round. To give players a chance to get back to the normal groove of doubles, we’ll be having a second round of best shot doubles–the kind everybody knows and loves.

As with any disc golf event, the primary objective of this is to have FUN. But on top of that, my goal is to raise money for the course to ultimately build a much needed information kiosk. As it is now, we have a couple stakes pounded into the ground, and a couple fence posts to hang fliers on. It is, in a word, ghetto. As our name states, we are interested in the advancement of disc golf, and having proper amenities at a course is one significant step towards advancing the sport. This tournament will be something of an experiment, and if all goes well, I hope to host many more events like this, at other courses to help them get off the ground, or to enhance what already exists.

If you would like more information on this event, check out the flyer here. If you’re anywhere around the Seattle area, or even if you aren’t, I hope you can grab a friend and come have some fun with us.  Even if you can’t make it, you can still help support the cause, and score a sweet putter by buying a glow Wizard, soon to be selling for $15 (+ shipping). The sport can only advance with your help (and yes I mean YOU)!

UPDATE: I’m adding an additional aspect to the tournament: costumes!  Costumes will not be mandatory for the tournament, but prizes will be awarded for the best costumes for those that choose to wear them.  Also, the stamp design is in it’s final process, and it’s looking awesome!

The word is starting to spread about the Association for the Advancement of Disc Golf, and we are getting readers from all over the US and as far away as Australia. As Tim and I have mentioned before, our main goal with the creation of our website area is a diverse community area with multiple ways for our members to brainstorm, collaborate, chat, hang out and help grow the sport of disc golf.

We are working on a couple of different platforms, and hope to do our first membership drive by early July. What we really would like is to hear from those of you who are visiting the site about what you hope to see in the world of AADG.

Some ideas may be social networking applications, creation of local AADG chapter clubs, forum capabilities, etc. Please let us know what you think. Feel free to email me at Brian@aadgonline.com. Thanks in advance for your help.

(Oh, and any of you Australia disc golfer’s looking at this site, please send us some pics of your courses down under, we’ll be sure to post them on the blog!)

As you may have noticed (and I hope you have) our website is currently being occupied solely by our blog. We are currently working with some other members of the disc golf community, and hoping to reach out to even more, regarding the development of a cohesive and powerful website for everything disc golf. Of course a project of this magnitude is a rather large undertaking, and we are discovering that it will take quite a bit of effort not to mention a little education on php, ftp, html, mysql, servers, bandwith and a bunch of other things we until recently knew very little about.

Our goal and the end result of this “website to be” is a virtual roof to house all things related to the sport. A place where newcomers can learn about why disc golf is so great, a place where “the old guys” can tell More on AADG Official Website Under Construction

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